Angst & Daisies

Pee Pee Tapes Are Just Fun: The Return of Dave the Republican

It's the return of one of our favorite guests, Dave the Republican and we pepper him with questions and comments about the current Republican Administration. We play the game "I'm OK With That" with Dave to see what actions by the Trump administration is and isn't OK with Dave! The good thing about having guests is we got to put our homework off for a week, so we will back with our candidate review next week!

I Can't Believe We're Talking About the Election Already!

With over a year to go until the first vote is cast in the primaries, we have to start talking about the election already! With 12 declared candidates on the Democrats side, such a consideration is necessary and we start out by getting to know two of the lesser known candidates: Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, IN and Andrew Yang, rich dude! We also talk about Muller (of course) Roger Stone and and the course of the investigation....

Virginia, Virginia, Virginia....

After recounting some personal travel stories, this week's episode is about how we respond to both the State of the Union and the widening events in the State of Virginia. We don't go down the "EVERYONE MUST RESIGN!" rabbit hole.... It's complicated! We give each other homework to learn about the people running to be President of the United States.....

Witness: Tornillo, a Christmas Story

In one of our more upsetting episodes, Caroline and Steve speak, via Skype, to friend of the Cast Sister Susan Wilcox from outside the internment/concentration camp for children in Tornillo, Texas on the Mexico border. After a brief explanation Sister Susan introduces us to Josh Rubin, who started Witness: Tornillo and has spent 3 months outside the camp. We hope this podcast cuts through some of the confusion on this issue and lets you know what is really going on and, as always, what you can do to help!

It's the End of the Year so Let's Look Forward Not Back!

In the penultimate episode for the year, we want to concentrate on things we can do moving forward, and though we try our best we ultimately talk a lot about the moral decay in the support of the current administration. In this episode, Caroline does most of the ranting, though Steve does take the opportunity to take one last shot at John Kelly, the lying scumbag, so you see how that goes......

"A Canvassing We Go"

In this Election Day re-cap, Caroline and Steve go over the results and the reactions to them! After some local results, we go to our live recording from our Get Out the Vote canvass in New Jersey...

"It's Like Political Porn.... It's Fantastic!"

As election day is just a week away Caroline and Steve take a moment to talk about the devastating events of the past two weeks. This episode is about rants and passion, and there's a lot of both... In the end, it's all about getting out and voting...

We Are Really Bad Podcasters....

After a very busy week for Caroline and Steve's vacation in the wilderness (unplugged and off-line) Steve calls in the Cast's favorite liberal lady, Suzi Dietz, to catch him up on the events of the past few weeks while he was away. From Trump Tweets, to the Manafort Flip, to the ups and downs of the Brett Kavanaugh nomination! We end the Cast with a discussion of how both Suzi and Steve are off the couch and working congressional campaigns in their areas!

It Was Really Loud at the Gun Range, or Whatever You Call It

In this episode, our two friends stay on the couch to go over recent events. Steve tells Caroline all about his trip to the gun range to fire an AK-47 (Caroline is not happy about any of this). There is a discussion about how "Truth Isn't Truth" (Just ask our friend "Dave the Republican"). We try to assess the damage a gaslight presidency has on the country and the best way to fight back; Is Avanatti right? Do we have to get in the mud with the pigs? And finally, a short discussion about how Andrew Cuomo doesn't think America was ever great, and what the reprocussions of that one statement may have on the rest of his political careare!

The Gun Show Loop-Hole

In our never ending quest to understand the other side (well, at least Caroline does anyway) we travel out to Pennsylvania to attend our first gun show! We recount our experiences, talk about the people we met and try and figure out the motivations and rationale behind gun culture. In the end we went for the guns and bought some pickles! Yeah, it’s crazy!